I agree. 19/X Lenin
(even if the goal is commerce, we must undertake this experiment, for we are getting pure profit for the hungry and the right of control; and the right of refusal for 3 months. Therefore we should not charge for transportation and storage). Appoint, with confirmation by the Politburo, such a controller of ours in the ARA for this operation who would combine reliability with the ability to control everything.

Written 19 October 1921
First published in 1959
in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

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